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... Perhaps he has some latent affection of the heart or obstruc- tions of the liver , causing sudden derangements of the circu- lation , and consequent physical depressions , — I am not physi- cian enough to determine , but I have known ...
... Perhaps he has some latent affection of the heart or obstruc- tions of the liver , causing sudden derangements of the circu- lation , and consequent physical depressions , — I am not physi- cian enough to determine , but I have known ...
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... perhaps hear from me again . If not , you will know what has happened , and act accordingly . If I last out to Holland , it will be the utmost . I have betted old Truby two dozen of hock wine , against port and sherry , I shall never ...
... perhaps hear from me again . If not , you will know what has happened , and act accordingly . If I last out to Holland , it will be the utmost . I have betted old Truby two dozen of hock wine , against port and sherry , I shall never ...
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... perhaps , that he can edge off , and so escape the storm , or only catch a flap with its skirts . There it comes ! " and he pointed towards the black mass , now rapidly diffusing itself over the surface of the sea , which be- came first ...
... perhaps , that he can edge off , and so escape the storm , or only catch a flap with its skirts . There it comes ! " and he pointed towards the black mass , now rapidly diffusing itself over the surface of the sea , which be- came first ...
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... Perhaps there are no more finished badauds extant than your French ones , of whatever rank , who fancy * In the " Orbis Pictus , " a Dutch - built polyglot school - book , birds of the soft - billed kind are rendered into English as ...
... Perhaps there are no more finished badauds extant than your French ones , of whatever rank , who fancy * In the " Orbis Pictus , " a Dutch - built polyglot school - book , birds of the soft - billed kind are rendered into English as ...
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... Perhaps , Gerard , as you are of a speculative turn , you will think my uncle's theory of diablerie worth working out . To my own fancy , sundry passages of the " Faust , " read aloud in the original language , sound suspiciously like a ...
... Perhaps , Gerard , as you are of a speculative turn , you will think my uncle's theory of diablerie worth working out . To my own fancy , sundry passages of the " Faust , " read aloud in the original language , sound suspiciously like a ...
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Page 349 - A PISCATORY ROMANCE. CHAPTER I. " Let me live harmlessly, and near the brink Of Trent or Avon have a dwelling-place, Where I may see my quill or cork down sink With eager bite of Perch, or Bleak, or Dace.
Page 389 - CONSUMPTION AND ITS CURE. A DOMESTIC EXTRAVAGANZA. " Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid ; Fly away, fly away, breath
Page 231 - 1 am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; Not a creature objects to
Page 27 - in Rotterdam. Then here it goes, a bumper, — The toast it shall be mine, In Schiedam or in Sherry, Tokay, or Hock of Rhine,— It well deserves the brightest Where sunbeam ever swam, — " The girl I love in England," I drink at Rotterdam. TO MISS WILMOT, AT WOODLANDS, NEAR BECKENHAM, KENT. MY DEAR
Page 437 - " ' And the Geneva, Trim,' added my Uncle Toby, * which did us more good than all.' " — TRISTRAM SHANDY. CHAPTER I. TEMPERANCE is a Virtue. " No doubt of it," cries a little fat, plethoric gentleman, with a sanguine complexion, and a very short
Page 325 - A HORTICULTURAL ROMANCE. CHAPTER I. " What sweet thoughts she thinks Of violets and pinks." L. HUNT. " Each flower of tender stalk whose head, though gay Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold, Hung drooping, unsustained, them she upstays.
Page 437 - I believe, an' please your Honor,' quoth the Corporal, * that if it had not been for the quantity of brandy we set fire to every night, and the claret and cinnamon with which I plied your Honor
Page 217 - My heart's Knapsack is always full of you ; My looks, they are quartered with you ; And when I bite off the top-end of a cartridge, Then I think that I give you a kiss. You alone are my Word of Command and orders, Yea, my Right-face, Left-face, Brown Tommy, and "wine, And at the word of command
Page 58 - sort, theres so menny farinacious impostors, and Johns and Marias, you don't know witch is him or her. Colon is full of Sites. The principle is the Cathedral, and by rites theres a Crane pearcht on the tiptop, like the Storks in Holland ; but I was out of luck, or he was off a feeding, for
Page 25 - plenty of travellers to do that with a pretended liberality : but I don't set up for a cosmopolite, which, to my mind, signifies being polite to every country except your own." " I have never heard the English accused," suggested your humble servant, " of wilful cruelty." " Not as to humankind, Frank : not as to humankind ; but